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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media Page #6
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- 1992
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So what you have is institutions, corporations -
big corporations -
that are selling relatively privileged audiences
to other businesses.
Well, what point of view
would you expect to come out of this?
Without any further assumptions,
what you'd predict is
that what comes out is a picture of the world,
a perception of the world,
that satisfies the needs,
and the interests, and the perceptions
of the sellers, the buyers, and the product.
Now, there are many other factors
that press in the same direction.
If people try to enter the system
who don't have that point of view,
they're likely to be excluded
somewhere along the way.
Ater all, no institution is going to
happily design a mechanism to self-destruct.
That's not the way institutions function,
so they all work to exclude, or marginalise,
or eliminate dissenting voices,
or alternative perspectives and so on
because they're dysfunctional.
They're dysfunctional to the institution itself.
Do you think you've escaped
the ideological indoctrination
of the media and society that you grew up in?
Have I? Oten not.
I mean, when I look back,
and think of the things that I haven't done
that I should have done, it's...
it's very...
it's...
not a pleasant experience.
So, what's the story
of young Noam in the school yard?
Yeah, another...
I mean, that was a personal thing for me.
I don't know why it should interest anyone else,
but I do remember...
- You drew certain conclusions.
- It had a big influence on me.
I remember when I was about six, I guess,
first grade, there was the standard fat kid
who everybody made fun of,
and I remember in the school yard,
he was on a...
you know, standing right outside
the school classroom,
and a bunch of kids outside sort of taunting him,
and... you know, and so on,
and one of the kids actually brought over
his older brother
from third grade instead of first grade.
Big kid.
And he was going to beat him up or something,
and I remember going up to stand next to him,
feeling somebody ought to... help him,
and I did for a while, and then I got scared,
and I went away,
and I was very much ashamed of it aterwards,
and sort of felt, you know...
"I'm not going to do that again."
That's a feeling that's stuck with me -
you should stick with the underdog.
And the shame remained.
You were already established, you were a
professor at MIT, you'd made a reputation,
you had a terrific career ahead of you.
You decided to become a political activist.
Now, here is a classic case of somebody the
institution does not seem to have filtered out.
I mean, you were a good boy up until then,
were you?
Or you'd always been a slight rebel?
Pretty much. I had been pretty much outside.
You felt isolated and out of
sympathy with the currents of American life,
but a lot of people do that.
Suddenly, in 1964,
you decide, "I have to do something about this".
What made you do that?
That was a very conscious,
and a very uncomfortable, decision,
because I knew
what the consequences would be.
I was in a very favourable position.
I had the kind of work I liked,
we had a lively, exciting department,
the field was going well, personal life was fine,
I was living in a nice place, children growing up.
Everything looked perfect,
and I knew I was giving it up,
and at that time, remember,
it was not just giving talks.
I became involved right away in resistance,
and I expected to spend years in jail,
and came very close to it.
In fact,
my wife went back to graduate school in part
as we assumed
she would have to support the children.
These were the expectations.
And I recognised
that if I returned to these interests
which were the dominant interests
of my own youth,
life would become very uncomfortable.
Because I know that in the United States
you don't get sent to psychiatric prison,
and they don't send a death squad ater you
and so on,
but there are definite penalties
for breaking the rules.
So these were real decisions,
and it simply seemed at that point
that it was just hopelessly immoral not to.
I'm Noam Chomsky, I'm on the faculty at MIT,
and I've been getting
more and more heavily involved
in anti-war activities for the last few years.
Beginning with writing articles,
and making speeches,
speaking to congressmen
and that sort of thing,
and gradually getting involved more and more
directly in resistance activities of various sorts.
I've come to the feeling myself
that the most effective form of political action
that is open to a responsible
and concerned citizen at the moment
is action that really involves direct resistance,
refusal to take part in
what I think are war crimes,
of American aggression overseas
through non-participation, and support
for those who are refusing to take part,
in particular,
drat resistance throughout the country.
I think that we can see quite clearly
some very, very serious defects and flaws
in our society,
our level of culture, our institutions
which are going to have to be corrected
by operating outside of the framework
that is commonly accepted.
I think we're going to have to
find new ways of political action.
I rejoice in your disposition
to argue the Vietnam question,
especially when I recognise
what an act of self-control this must involve.
It really does.
- You're doing very well.
- You're doing very well.
- I lose my temper. Maybe not tonight.
Maybe not tonight...
because if you would
I'd smash you in the goddamn face.
That's a good reason for not losing your temper.
You say, "The war is simply an obscenity,
a depraved act by weak and miserable men."
Including all of us.
Including myself. That's the next sentence.
Oh, sure, sure, sure.
Because you count everybody
in the company of the guilty.
- I think that's true in this case.
- It's a theological observation.
No, I don't think so.
If everybody's guilty of everything,
then nobody's guilty of anything.
No, I don't believe that.
I think the point that I'm trying to make,
is that the real...
at least to me -
I say this elsewhere in the book -
what seems to me a very, in a sense, terrifying
aspect of our society and other societies
is the equanimity and the detachment
with which sane, reasonable, sensible people
can observe such events.
I think that's more terrifying than
the occasional Hitler or LeMay that crops up.
These people would not be able
to operate were it not for the...
this apathy and equanimity,
and therefore I think that it's in some sense
the sane, and reasonable, and tolerant people
who share a very serious burden of guilt
that they very easily
throw on the shoulders of others
who seem more extreme and more violent.
New York City's so-called Canyon of Heroes.
Americans were officially welcoming
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